Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Agree with most of this

but herd immunity isn’t necessarily a thing when re-infection is possible

I saw that clown from Trinity College talking about BA2, you know the 'new' variant. I immediately thought...new? I knew about that variant 3 months ago ffs. He was only saying it was new so that he could peddle a narrative of impending doom. I really despise people who try to cash in like that.

It might be an unpopular view (because you won't here it on the tele) but you're best getting Covid while the vaccines are active in your body. A few months from now they won't be as effective and high caseloads will inevitably lead to more suffering. Let it rip through the population NOW, while the vaccines are actively protecting us. The more of us infected the better. Acquired immunity is the gold standard, offering longer lasting protecting and deliverance.

Just half curious but is there any level of analysis applied to the uploaded antigen tests? For example, if Random Person A uploaded a positive antigen result yesterday and again today are they one case or deemed to be two?

Indeed, I suppose once people are on their third or fourth dose of covid, which many probably are at this point, the severity of illness diminishes.

Hence very few, if any, fully vaccinated people in ICU this wave.

Edit: ICU

There you go, severe over reaction as usual.

A few solitary complaints by customers. He’s dwelling over it and will get back to us in due course! Fûcking joke!

I do wonder if we report cold & flus at this current time what would the number be ?

Last 2 months people are mixing for the first time in 2 years really do the normal bugs and flus being passed about, the weather is a bit better so there more people about but its still not warm so again not ideal .

Also after a 4 days weekend lots of people system will have taken a bit of pasting form late night drinking and poor food choices, so lots of colds would be about ,

He's on a retainer with RTE! Pain in the fcuking hole, a constant state of "concern".

Was probably like that pre-Covid too.

Have you evidence that they died? It is positive because admissions are low. Are you able to understand that ? Only 55 people in ICU despite the thousands of cases daily is very positive.

I also know of a school where half the students were out with COVID. You could probably multiply those numbers by at least 3.

If you had covid a month ago, so what are the chances of catching BA 2 ?

Young people and by that I mean 50% of the population under the age of 45, unless severely immunocompromised, don't end up in hospital because of COVID. This was the case pre-vaccines and is even more the case now. So straight off the bat, your assumption is refuted by the data.

And this idea of a "mask" helping, would that include the piece of fabric I bought in Spar that I wear over my mouth and carry around in my pocket, reusing it for a week or two at a time? Even if I had a medical grade mask, does it matter if I reuse it for a week or put it in my pocket constantly?

But the main point again is that hospitals have been the source of spread themselves but love to deflect to the community and this notion of "community transmission needing to be reduced", which sounds great but it is a bit pointless to say as it is speculative to put that as the reason for calling for people to wear masks now, when the issues in hospitals were not caused by community transmission but by the hospitals themselves. They are the Masters of spin and deflection!

I noticed on the radio yesterday evening that 4 radio stations had the exact same news story as the first story, even with the same soundbite from Leo.

8 days and the emergency powers are supposed to lapse. It feels a bit like there is a coordinated and well funded effort to force some sort of last minute extension via the media. COVID is not a problem recently as it has not been for months, our data on hospitalisations and ICU shows this, so it would not make much sense to extend the emergency powers beyond the 31st March.

Like with every reopening date we faced the last two years, the hysterics pump the media with cash and get a coordinated narrative out that the government needs to delay easing in the weeks and days leading up to such date. We're seeing the same BS here.

The INMO statements being covered consistently across the media seemed to be paid for by them at least.

But the media whores themselves know a gift horse when they see one and the clickbait around COVID scare stories does generate them money which is their prime motivator in all of this, not a care for proper independent and investigative journalism, perhaps querying and analysing the statements made by the INMO rather than just publishing the press release.

Leo's new group to be named:

NPSh1t